STINNER Victor <vstin...@redhat.com> added the comment:
> If I understood PR 10919 correctly, sysconfig.get_config_var('userbase') can
> now return unexpanded paths containing '~'. Is it intended despite the
> previous discussion starting with msg135047?
With my PR 10919, "python3 setup.py install" and "python3 setup.py install
--user" still fail with:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 79, in <module>
main()
File "setup.py", line 75, in main
setup(**options)
File "/tmp/cpython/Lib/distutils/core.py", line 121, in setup
dist.parse_config_files()
File "/tmp/cpython/Lib/distutils/dist.py", line 397, in parse_config_files
filenames = self.find_config_files()
File "/tmp/cpython/Lib/distutils/dist.py", line 349, in find_config_files
check_environ()
File "/tmp/cpython/Lib/distutils/util.py", line 161, in check_environ
os.environ['HOME'] = pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[5]
KeyError: 'getpwuid(): uid not found: 12345'
I suggest to open a new issue if you want to enhance the error message and/or
handle getpwuid() failure in find_config_files().
I prefer to stick to the initial bug report which hasn't been fixed in 8 years:
> When Python cannot find the home directory of the user invoking it, it prints
> "'import site' failed; use -v for traceback".
IMHO PR 10919 fix is straighforward, it respects the contract (documentation)
of posixpath.expanduser() ("If user or $HOME is unknown, do nothing."), and
expanduser() already handles KeyError on getpwnam() (since the function has
been created in 1992 by Guido van Rossum! commit
7ac4878773040158038031a85be122d9e7071afe).
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